NSPCC figures show production and sharing of child abuse images soar in recent years. SanderStock via IStock Offences relating to possessing, taking, making and distributing child abuse material in Scotland peaked last year. SanderStock via IStock Social media is being used as a “conveyor belt” to produce and share child abuse images on an “industrial scale”, the NSPCC has said as it revealed more than 3000 images had been recorded by Police Scotland in the last five years.